WCAX, Burlington, VT’s CBS affiliate, reported on their six o’clock news that Governor Jim Douglas has come out against the Vermont Legislature taking up same-sex marriage in this upcoming term. He also reiterated his position that civil unions are, basically, good enough. He believes that the Legislature has far more pressing issues to deal with, including the problems with the economy. Douglas has been in office since 2002 when Governor Howard Dean chose not to run for reelection. He has faced reelection every other year since then, just like all other Vermont governors. Jim Douglas is a Republican, and ...

Last year, Harvard Crimson columnist Lucy Morrow Caldwell caught national attention (and much ire) when she chose to publicly reveal that Rudy Giuliani's minor daughter had joined a pro-Obama Facebook group (privately, under a pseudonym). Today she comes on our radar for her decision to publicly regurgitate insipid far-right talking points about gays not being harmed by marriage bans because they can already marry someone of the opposite sex, majority rights not being the jurisdiction of the judiciary, and gay activists' unwillingess to "face that democracy has spoken." Check out some of the "brilliance": Since ...